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• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Author's Preface...
• Angling is somewhat like poetry,--men are to be born so.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse
  and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing....
• We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
  v...
• Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Author's Preface...
• No man can lose what he never had. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
  v...
• You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 21...